Who is the Davidic servant spoken of in the scriptures?
Question
Dear Gramps,
Who is the Davidic Servant; and is he coming soon/is he here now?
Ninalee
Answer
Dear Ninalee,
Avraham Gileadi, in his book, “The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation with Interpretive Keys from the Book of Mormon” quotes the Prophet Joseph Smith as making the following statement:
Although David was a king, he never did obtain the spirit and power of Elijah and the fullness of the Priesthood; and the Priesthood that he received, and the throne and kingdom of David is to be taken from him and given to another by the name of David in the last days, raised up out of his lineage.
He also quotes from the dedicatory prayer offered by Orson Hyde on the Mount of Olives,
Let them know that it is Thy good pleasure to restore the kingdom to Israel–raise up Jerusalem as its capital, and constitute her people a distinct nation and government, with David Thy servant, even a descendant from the loins of ancient David to be their king.
Duane Crowther in his book, “Prophecy, Key to the Future,” gives his opinion that King David will appear immediately before the Battle of Armagedon. He refers us to the following scriptures citing that this David will be responsible for building the temple in Palestine in the last days–Zechariah 6:11-13, Jeremiah 23:5-6, Hosea 3:4-5.
So, according to these sources, the Servant David is yet to appear.
Gramps
I have read some of your posts from time to time. They seem sincere, well thought out, and usually doctrinally sound. This post is a little light and cursory…
When you read all of Joseph Smith’s lectures towards the latter end of his ministry, one will notice how he taught that Elijah was a future coming that had not happened yet. That when he comes, he will personally turn the hearts of the Children to the Fathers, the eternal Fathers. That he will put in order all the ordinances of the house of the Lord. Also, Elijah is to bring and restore a Priesthood, that he was the last one to posses and to preside in upon the earth.
Elijah is one of the Two Witnesses, and so he will have been here long before Armageddon, and he shall reunit the two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Yesrael. There are those who believe that Moses will be the other Second Wittiness. If they are killed by fire, then they both will be Married Servants indeed.
Time will prove all things, where contention and all doctrinal disagreements will depart from the Elect. For Elijah and the Davidic Servant are one in the same Being.
Shalom